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Many of the forty-seven Kidder Gallery photographs below are from the Sharon Sontag Collection (descendant of Abraham J Voth), the Carol Halstead Collection (descendant of Tobias Kunkel), Hiebert Library, Victor Schmidt (descendant of Johann Schmidt) and Robert Guenther (descendant of Franz Guenther).
Peter Wall (left) died of pneumonia 1884. Photo 1883? Note pedestal. |
 Heinrich Wall's 1st son Heinrich killed at age 24 while digging a well in 1889. Photo 1884? Backdrop same as previous. |
 Heinrich Loewen and Helena Born were married in 1876. Photo 1886? Different backdrop, shaggy rug, no card mount. |
Unknown. "Tree and fence" backdrop. |
Abraham Dirksen with first son. Abraham naturalized 1883, killed by lightning 1886. |
Unknown. |
Susanna (born 1879) and Katherine (born 1878) Unruh. |
Unknown. |
Unknown. |
Father Johann Schmidt (left) with sons Tobias (standing) and Heinrich. |
Unknown. |
Unknown. |
Unknown. This and remaining cabinet cards say "S.D." Statehood was granted in 1889. |
Agnetha "Nettie" Schmidt Boese - 1894. |
Jacob Boese - 1894. "Shield" logo replaced wih Kidder's initials "WDK". |
Nettie's Different Pose. |
Tobias Kunkel Chair replaces pedestal. |
May be Cornelius Loewen and Anna unruh (GM #103827). Moved to Hillsboro, KS. |
Cornelius Kunkel Different backdrop. |
Heinrich F. Kunkel |
Maria Guenther and Heinrich Loewen with first child Aganetha, born Aug 1900. |
Katherine Engbrecht Peterson |
Gerhard and Katharina Boese Gossen Children (Block structure appears in later portraits) |
Unknown |
Heinrich Loewen and Charlotte Baumbach with Bertha (left) & Katie born 1895. |
Bertha was born 1895? |
Same day, different dress. |
Bertha Loewen and sister with G'pa John Baumbach After 1900 |
Jacob Thomas and Elisabeth Adrian with second child, Cornelius born 1 July 1889. "WDK" logo replaced with "Pallette" logo. |
 Isaac Loewen's daughters Sarah (b1878) and Mary (b1880). |
Agnetha Kunkel Gossen |
Unknown |
Tobias Schmidt with daughter Maria born 1897. |
Tobias Schmidt's children. |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown boy. Blocks |
Loewen Son uncertain which one. |
Heinrich Kunkel |
Sons of Tobias Kunkel with Peter Boese (right rear). blocks |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Dietrich Loewen and Katharina Thiessen with dau Anna born Jan 1890 Dietrich died in Canada May 1894. Chair MAY be the same as previous. Uncertain. |
Isaac Loewen uncertain which son. After 1900 |
Isaac Loewen died in 1913. |
A Parker photo by Reynolds. Franz Guenther Reynolds |
A Parker photo by Barton. John Schaefer married Katharina Penner Sep 1887. Barton |
Unknown |
Andreas Voth with sons-in-law |
Tobias Kunkel and Katharina Peters |
Cornelius Kunkel and Katharina Peters |